I turned 40 this year and I still haven’t stopped playing video games. To the contrary, I reduced my already little TV time once again in favor of gaming and reading. With professional gaming known as esports filling big stations and video game streaming on Twitch as an accepted way to make a living, I thought gaming in 2018 is the new normal. – Within my family and peers at work I still get those pitiful looks when I talk about gaming as a hobby. more
Back in 2013 I decided to rebuild my 90s techno vinyl collection because my original records and CDs had been lost over the previous decade. I had no written records about anything I owned. But most of it I knew was played at least once in a radio show called the Steve Mason Experience. By searching the internet for playlists of this underground techno radio show – that ran throughout the 90s – I started a journey that would lead to thousands of hours in research and in building an archive website with 8000 music tracks listed: stevemasonexperience.info more
I am not the biggest fan of meta blog posts but for the first time in years it is time to do one for my blog. Change is coming to this blog and some of it is already happening. more
To save an URL into a different file name the “-O” option is the best way to go. If you have special characters like ? or & in your URL enclose the URL in double quotes.
This is how it should look:
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wget -O testme.gif "http://larshaendler.com?test=me" |
SSL source without checking the certificate
If you have a ssl source and do not want to have the certificate checked:
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wget --no-check-certificate -O testme.gif "https://larshaendler.com?test=me" |
RNG and drop chance is one of most confusing and frustrating subjects for Warframe players. Not only because of the math but because of all the half-truths found in forums and reddit. That is why I initially created a youtube video about this topic. This blog post is a loose transcript of said video. more
Sometimes it is useful to not use the default apt install for installing an Oracle SDK. more
In a recent incident where I was looking for Java on the console I noticed a difference between whereis and which. This is the short version:
whereis
searches the standard Linix (Unix) locations for a specified command
which
which returns the pathnames of the files which would be executed in the current environment
I prefer which because I am more interested in if a binary can be accessed in the current environment.
Simple mail directly from command line
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mail -s "Here goes the mail subject" youremail@yourdomain.com <<< 'Online line mail body' |
This transcript was compiled by the reddit user ownasideline66
There are two way to install Atom using a repository. more
xz is a loss-less compression format similar to lzma. When you come across tar.xz files either use the -J option for decompression or no option at all (tar is clever enought to spot the compression type). more
At the time of writing node.js LTS is in version 8.9. Therefore installation of version 8.x on Linux Mint is shown
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curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs |